THE IMPACT OF CHANGE IN SELECTIVE CONDITIONS

The historical photos presented in this article epitomize the Thoroughbred not as it is today (especially in America), but as it was originally. The portraits of Eclipse, Matchem and especially Herod instantly identify them as Thoroughbreds---they could belong to no other breed. Here we find the narrow but extraordinarily deep, keel-shaped chest, the long “slashing” shoulders and high, knifelike withers that help so fundamentally to give a horse the kind